The barking treefrog is the largest treefrog species in North Carolina. It has large toe pads and is generally green with reddish-brown or purple spots. Like most treefrogs, the barking treefrog can change color rapidly, from green to gray or brown. It also has distinctly granular skin, which differentiates it from smooth-skinned species like the green tree frog. The barking tree frog burrows in the sand, especially when the temperature is hot. It also spends time high up in trees, especially during the day when it is less active.
Ten Facts about Barking Treefrog
- Barking treefrogs occur in the Coastal Plain and eastern Piedmont, primarily in pine forests and dry flatwoods. Although barking treefrogs can be found high in trees.
- These frogs grow to be about 6.5cm(2.5 in).
- The frog is known for its loud, strident barking call. It may also utter a repetitive single-syllable mating call.
- Breeding occurs between March to August.
- Their breeding call is a single "toonk," given every few seconds. From a distance, a breeding chorus may sound like a pack of barking dogs.
- It is a polygynous species, the female choosing the male on the basis of his call.
- They can be found in the coastal plain from se. Virginia to s. Florida and Louisiana. Also, isolated populations in the northern parts of the Gulf states and Tennessee and Kentucky. Introduced into s. New Jersey.
- Tadpoles can be nearly 5 centimetres (2.0 in) in length.
- They eats earthworms, small insects, eggs of small mammals, fishes, snakes.
- Predators includes snakes, hawks, red foxes, alligators, wild cats, fishes, e.t.c.
